Have you ever been ripped off when buying cards?

Maybe Dick could get that out for ya

Originally Posted by sox1903wschamp

I am not sure if I would classify this as being "ripped off" but I took this with a grain of salt. Not pre-war but I purchased a fairly high grade 72 topps set a few years back from an auction house and the Clemente was described as "NMT". Well, when I checked the back, below is what it looked like . Looks like someone was keeping thier player profiles up to date in a morbid fashion.

A little upset at first but I gave the auction house a pass. The rest of the set was fine. And I might add, all of my deals have been fantastic in this community.

[batsballsbases]

Andrew,
Just what I was thinking! A little dip-it-tee-do from the dicker-rew! sorry Dick I couldnt resist!

[D. Bergin]

I remember back in the late 80's when Don Mattingly was super hot I set up at a show with a buddy. We were teenagers then and we decided to be partners, which didn't last long at all.

Anyways, we had a pretty good show but then my buddy goes off the deep end. It's the end of the show and this other guy at the show has a ton of 84Topps Rack Packs at an unbelievable price.

My buddy comes back to me and tells me we need to sink all our earnings into these packs. At the time we were selling Mattingly's for 25 bucks apiece and I think Darryl Strawberry was also selling for a bit to. They were easy sales. If you had them they would sell.

I had a funny feeling about this guy. I was pretty sure he'd been caught selling tampered packs before and I just didn't feel right about it. I tried to nix the deal but my buddy got pissed at me and went and made the deal anyways.

When we got home we opened all the packs and everything was obviously searched. No Mattingly's, No Strawberry's or anything else that might have been of value at the time. You could even see the fingernail marks on the back cards the guy used to find the pack patterns.

They aren't worth crap now but at the time it was pretty depressing opening up packs and packs of commons.

[E93]

I just noticed about a year or two ago that the '71 Steve Garvey rookie that I got in a trade back in '79 in junior high had been colored in with black marker around the corners and edges to appear better. And I thought this kind of shit only affected high-grade registry crowd.
JimB

[GrayGhost]

Dave Bergin's post hit home, as I know the same rip off dealer, and Dave had told me back then bout getting gypped. Luis the Lip as he was called, was a sequencer and a pack resealer, who burned many many people in CT over those years, esp w 84 and 85 topps racks and wax. When he was called out and exposed by a reputable legit dealer, who bought some 85 boxes on a fast turn over, w a lot of trust, his luck started to wane.

[zork1974]

There's a dealer that sets up at the Toronto Expo every year. He has amazing football and vintage baseball. Most of the stuff is raw and looks to be anywhere from a grade of 6 or more. Anyways, I bought a 52 Bowman Sammy Baugh a few years ago from him and sure enough, it came back from SCG as trimmed. $120 down the drain. In the spring, I went back to the guy's table and went through a ton of his stuff as a "possible buyer." Knowing what I know now (what to look for in trimmed cards), he had all sorts of trimmed stuff.

I didn't say anything. I'd like to but to me, the $120 hit was a great learning experience. I'll still buy unslabbed cards but I certainly know what to look for when it comes to ungraded material.

[Ladder7]

Oh Hell yea., One word Fro Joy.